Friday, December 27, 2013

"WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER" IS ABOUT OBAMA, ISN'T IT? YOU CAN TELL ME!

Thanks to ol' scribe jones for pointing me to what may be the cuh-raziest Pajama Boy post of the week. Apparently Taylor Swift instagramed herself and her brother dressed similarly to the much-maligned advertising model, adding, "Matching Christmas onesies is a thing that's happening right now."

Maybe you think it's cute; more likely you think, who cares? But John Hinderaker of Power Line is deeply interested:

The guy in the photo is Taylor’s brother; I know because one of my daughters told me so. But here’s the question: can the red plaid onesies possibly be a coincidence? I see three alternatives: 1) Miss Swift really is the only person in the USA who doesn’t know that plaid onesies, paired with hot chocolate and nerd glasses, have been mercilessly mocked by millions for the past week. Argument for this interpretation: She has written many songs, not one of which contains even a hint as to any political leanings, suggesting she has none. She is immensely rich and does indeed live in a bubble.

Or maybe she's just part of the great majority of Americans who aren't refreshing National Review Online every ten minutes looking for a new Pajama Boy post.

2) Miss Swift is slyly joining in the mockery. Argument for this interpretation: How can she not know? Everyone knows. 3) On the contrary, she is subtly sticking up for Obamacare by assuring her legions of fans that plaid onesies are cool after all. Argument for this interpretation: Swift reportedly looked pained and disapproving when hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley mocked Obamacare at the Country Music Awards.

If Hinderaker didn't know who Taylor Swift's brother was before, you can bet he has a dossier on her whole family now, and has been performing close physiognomical analysis of her performances for political content.

I very nearly bought my father some "#1Dad" footie pajamas the other day. Then I realized that, in his state of progressing dementia and parkinsons, he'd likely kill himself trying to go to the bathroom.

Anyway, they were at Macy's in Connecticut. Store brand, even. Mostly sold out, all that was left was the dregs.

News flash, Buttrocket: There are millions (where have I heard that recently) who have no use at all for politics via the internet. They Youtube, they Gmail, they Yahoo, they Facebook, but they don't wait breathlessly on the latest from NRO, or TPM, or Alicublog (sorry, Roy), The number of people I know who read blogs is exceeded only by the number who don't. The political blogosphere is home to a lot of us, but viewed from orbit, you could probably lose it in Rhode Island...

How about 1) Miss Swift really is the only person in the USA who doesn’t know that plaid onesies, paired with hot chocolate and nerd glasses, have been mercilessly mocked by millions for the past week and even if she knew, she wouldn't give a shit what some insignificant corndog-gobbling rightwing nerd thinks about the kind of pajamas she wears, and why should she, since mega-rich people don't have to give a shit about what insignificant dorks think.

"He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile."

Prophetic! Bush turned out to actually be a great painter ahead of his time, who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile. Hinderaker nailed it.

This never-ending hyperventilation on the right over the identity politics story du jour -- "Oh no! A Christian was not allowed to do something Christian!" "Oh no! Look what that blah person did and the liberal media doesn't care!" "Oh no! Someone somewhere doesn't care about the gender norms that John Wayne and Saint Ronnie fought for!" -- is annoying. But to be fair, it's pretty harmless. Better than when these same people thought the main thing we were doing wrong was not killing and torturing enough Arabs.

Hinderaker has missed a fourth alternative: when Swift says "...onesies is a thing that's happening right now," she's mocking people who have worked themselves into a froth over the past couple of weeks because of a picture of a guy in pajamas.

"Argument for this interpretation" is Buttrocket code for: "I know this is so trivial as to be beneath me, but I'm tarting it up with crisp, impersonal, intellectual-type phrases so any of my peers wondering why I'm wasting time addressing this nonsense will know that *I know better.*"

Once again a leading light of the wingnut cause proves that, no matter how hard they try, they'll always prove themselves to be emotional adolescents wielding slightly-better-than-mediocre adult minds. They're betrayed in this by the very impulse that prompts them to write anything. Talk about "it's my nature"--they all scorpions who, while drowning, laugh, "Oh, make no mistake, I KNOW what I'm doing."

Hmmmm. I wonder if it's starting to dawn on them that this whole pajama kerfluffle has pretty much revealed them to be the hopelessly uncool dorks in this scenario? They've spent decades on a calculated program of trying to convince America that conservatism is all youth and excitement, a big old College Republicans bacchanal of South Park and ogling hot women and 50 Conservative Rock Songs and Batman sequels. But they seem to have overplayed their hand, and suddenly the millennials are realizing their true commitments to The Half Hour News Hour, preventing unmarried sex, invalidating the marriages of your gay friends, and cluelessly mocking people online for wearing trendy pajamas. Yes, all of the Washington moronocracy who had nothing better to do over the holidays jumped on the bandwagon, but that's not exactly the "millions" they claim.

Am I overstating? Maybe. But I've been waiting for Americans to get over their infatuation with Alex P. Keaton for so long, and nothing will kill it deader than the discovery that conservatives really are the killjoy fuddy-duddies everyone suspects they are.

The rightwing now has so many identifying badges they have to live up to that they're cluttering up their personal lives with obligations. Must do - eat fried chicken sandwiches, listen to Ted Nugent, drink Big Gulps, wear camo-gear. Can't do - drink water, wear pajamas, grow vegetables.

Actually clicked on the Swift instagram, and then clicked again on the model. They really aren't connected. I mean, they're both red, but, whatever. So Hinderaker is really reaching.

It reminds me of a guy I once knew who had dementia. He had somehow fixated on accounts of how Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines, had been an obsessive shoe-collector. So then, every time there was a reference to the Philippines, or a person from that country, or anything vaguely Filiipino, he'd talk about shoes, and everyone who heard him would go, "What?" His fixation was so personal that no one else could perceive it..

A friend/acquaintance from high school, an ardent lover of Likud and Republicans (in that order), yesterday changed his Facebook profile pic to Pajama Boy. He got zero likes or comments. IOW, even this guy's circle of friends had no idea what he was talking about. If the relentless preoccupations of dozens of obsessive fans really did mean a widespread layer of support from untold millions, we'd have Alex Chilton on our money by now.

If this is indeed in reference to Pajama Boy, then it looks to me less like either mockery or defense and more like just joining the hoopla because it's fun. It's "a thing that's happening right now," she said. That seems to sum it up.

I have made it my personal project this year to become less the kind of person who reads politics into everything. This is the sort of thing that reminds me of why.

If you went on reddit or imgur and looked at posts from xmas eve and day you will find dozens of pics of people dressing in holiday pajamas. In none of the ones I saw was there any mention of Obama or the Affordable Care Act.

Funny how Hindrocket never hit on the interpretation that Pajama Boy was wearing pajamas because as Ms Swift says, they're "a thing that's happening right now." It's possible that OfA is more in touch with youth culture than National Review.

Ya gotta understand that these people--Assrocket in particular--live in an echo chamber that's lined with fun-house mirrors. So he hears nothing but his own bullshit echoing back all the time, and everywhere he looks he sees people who look and act sorta like himself, and they're all mouthing the same words he's speaking.

So, yeah: EVERYONE knows about Pajama Boy and the merciless mocking he's endured from the NRO crowd--everyone in the mirrors that Assrocket keeps looking into.

Madness has a disturbing logic sometimes, even if its just interior logic.A father of one of my wife's coworkers was a general in the Marcos regime (he'd been to jump school with Fidel Ramos).

He'd retired to a chicken farm not too far from us, and we drove there at their invitation to get a truckload of composted chicken shit. After we finished shoveling the manure into the truck they invited us in for tea. The wall was plastered with his combat decorations from Vietnam and pictures of him and his wife with Ferdinand and Imelda, along with catholic religious shrines. The house had been a dogtrot early on, so to get from the entry room to the kitchen /dining area, you had to pass through a hallway about the size of a mobile home. It had been fitted with retail racks for an astonishing collection of women's shoes. Thousands.

The traditional uniform is a charcoal grey business suit worn over a Duck Dynasty t-shirt over a Chik-Fil-A t-short over a Palin t-shirt over a Never Forget 9/11 t-shirt over a Bush/Cheney t-shirt over an anti-Dixie Chicks t-shirt. Three more outrages and they won't be able to move anymore.

How about 4) It's Christmas morning, she's goofing around with family, and she wants to be comfortable?

I actually met Taylor Swift once, on the job about four years ago, but I had no idea it was her until later. The fact that I never knew she was a fairly famous person actually speaks well to her character.

I feel bad she didn't break up with me, though:

"Mister, it's just not working out.""We're not even going out.""No biggie, it's just my schtick!"

The right wingers have had many weird obsessions over the years. Flag pins, bowing, fake birth legends, etc. But pajama boy takes the cake as the weirdest and most obsessive of all. It's so completely taken over their lives that now every thing they see somehow connects to pajama boy. It's pajama boy madness, and it won't end well.

Add to the picture their fervent adoption of Chik-fil-ay sandwiches and their brave defense of Big Gulps - they wear the badges of their tribe proudly while snarling "Merry Christmas!' at the opposition.

Good point. Lots of people don't have any use for the day-to-day dustups of political columnists.

I mentioned something about "Pajama Boy" to my wife, for example, and she said "Who?"

I briefly explained the micro-scandal (feeling a little bit silly as I did so,) and she looked at me as though I were making the whole thing up. Listening to myself, I FELT as though I were making the whole thing up.

I get exactly the same reaction from every member of my extended family, without exception. I send out occasional links in emails to most of 'em, and they're pretty much ignored. Only have one wingnut in the group. I don't bother sending him anything...

I'm with you, Dan. I never worry about a person's politics. I'm much more interested in ferreting out any personal weakness or failing I can take advantage of. Try developing that facility, it's worth a whole lot more than some stupid dialectic or whatever.

Man, go easy on the dregs! We went out dregging last night, and I now have a nice new Lauren bathrobe, all kinds new Izod palamas, and premium Russel sweats, at about 70% off.Most alarming is the way "micro-fibers" are replacing %100 cotton.

The scandals really do get more ridiculous every time. We lefties used to make the mistake of constantly thinking they'd finally hit rock bottom. I think most of us have learned our lesson. Why, I don't think I've seen the phrase "Peak Wingnut" for four or five years now.

Macy*s store brands are pretty good. They used to carry sheets by "Style&Co" which I think was a store brand... they were displaced by "Martha Stewart" stuff. Martha Stewart "stuff" is everywhere.

The rest of the world is fretting about climate change, pollution, banksters, etc.etc., but they really ought to sit up and take notice of the spreading strains of Stewartisms. Even in Petco! Soon there will be "Martha Stewart" gasoline, and "Martha Stewart" Kock-funded think tanks. THEN she'll run for president, hopefully against Ryan or Cruz.

Yeah, I agree with Triplanetary. I think the scandals get smaller and more ridiculous all the time and the current one pushes out the last one. The flag pin thing was the stupidest, to my mind, because they stasrted in with it while their own reps weren't wearing flag pins. You actually had people not wearing flag pins criticizing Obama for not wearing one. Also, another forgotten one was "hand on heart gate" when Obama unwisely had his picture taken while his hand was not on his heart--it wasn't actually during the pledge of allegiance or some patriotic song, it was before or after, but what the hell? It proved something.

But it all works together, all the time. I had an online wingnut tell me, tearfully, that Obama and Michelle never "shake hands with" or acknowledge the servicemen who work on airforce one or who they encounter around the country. I've seen about a fucking kajillion pictures of the Obamas shaking hands with, serving food to, and celebrating service people including janitors, for fuck's sake, all around the country all the time. But if you were to show those pictures to her she'd just tell you they were as staged as th emoon landing and proved how insincere and fake the Obamas are. Its not what they say--its that they say it ovr and over and overa gain that works for these goons. Because they are in the business of satifying a bottomless maw of hatred. They could shovel in the moral equivalent of an everest of styrofoam chips and never fill that abyss.

Foam board really doesn't have the required structural integrity. Ideally you'd use three-quarter inch cabinet-grade hardwood plywood. Given today's financial straits, everyone will understand if you need to use oriented strand board instead. Or even some old pallets.

If the specimen isn't intended for your permanent collection, just temporary display, one can frequently locate a suitable mounting surface in the local environment, such as the hood of a Cadillac Escalade or the front facade of a bank headquarters. Hardened steel fasteners and a hammer drill are recommended for such substrates.

This is as good a metaphor as any and better than most, for what they do. I'd only add that wingnut bloggers do it as though assigned by a teacher: "Find something, no matter how trivial, and claim that it makes the case that Obama is diabolical." It's "professional" in that way--I don't really mean it, but the teacher is making me do it. Although I'm sure if you had a drink with them and confronted them with the absurdity of it, they'd deny that and insist that what they're doing is sincere and legitimate.

If Taylor Swift is making fun of anything she's doing it in a manner so gentle and refined as to be unexampled in the annals of the Power Line genus — maybe that's what's got Hinderaker in a stew. "What is this spoofery of which you speak?" It's like somebody breaking out in Elvish at a longshoremen's convention and giving rise to a confusion too deep for threats — instead the brothers poke each other nervously and mutter under their breaths that nobody better be making fun of them. (If anybody even is, which they can't decide.)

This thread is all about the stupid; wingnut in general, assrocket in particular. I'm wondering why the overriding mendacity hasn't been discussed. It's the scourge of Obamacare driving this flapgasm; without it they wouldn't give a shit either way about onesies.

If Pajama Boy had been hoisting a triple bacon burger on behalf of Americans For Tax reform, he'd be booked solid on rightwing media for the next year as a younger, cooler Joe the Plumber.

Just a dude dropping in late at night to reaffirm my very heterosexual and platonic love for Pajama Boy:another clueless milepost on the autobahn to irrelevance for our flannel-loathing, flailing ideological opponents.

Same experience here…I wanted to share the nostalgic humor of Rollergirl Rondstadt, but found that I had to explain the entire Rightwing meltdown over the ACA ad campaign BEFORE even getting to the Pajama Boy part.

I felt like a 10-year-old trying to tell a joke he didn't really get. It was horrible.

On that note, she pointed me to this short video on the problems with the American medical cartel, which is sort of what Pajama Boy might be saying if he could talk.

Although, I still can't figure out why the truth freaks wingers out so much. How are you going to fix anything when you don't even want to know what's wrong?

I'm so confused…doesn't being mega-riche mean that every thought that forms and slips like a silvery burp-egg from Ms. Swift's mouth mean that it's TRUTH? How can the rocket even think about her being wrong or ignorant?

The right wingers have had many weird obsessions over the years. Flag pins, bowing, fake birth legends, etc.

They're just looking for easy visual cues for tribal identity. I mean, c'mon, used to be that White or a Southron Accent was enough to recognize a fellow asshole, but nowadays you can't really tell until you talk to 'em.

Wingers need to be able to recognize fellow tribals before they talk to them and be exposed to rational thinking (or worse).

Yeah, you do. With a nice layer of heavy flannel between me and the dog, I can stand it. I'm not sure I want her sleeping up against my bare skin. The dander will give me a rash. Of course, the fleas find the fly.

According to CBS News, in a September 15 email, Petraeus wrote that "he doesn't like the talking points and he would 'just assume they not use them... This is not what [Rep.] Ruppersberger asked for. We couldn't even mention the Cairo warning. But it's their call.'"

The "Cairo warning" Petraeus mentioned appears to refer to the following sentence that CBS News reported was added to the original talking points but subsequently removed:

On 10 September we warned of social media reports calling for a demonstration in front of the Embassy [in Cairo] and that jihadists were threatening to break into the Embassy."

As has been extensively reported, the September demonstrations in Cairo, Egypt, were part of a series of global riots and protests in Muslim countries that came in response to increasing awareness of the anti-Islam video. In the days and weeks following the attack, President Obama both referred to the attacks as an "act of terror" and offered criticism of that video for "spark[ing] outrage through the Muslim world."

It was not unreasonable for Petraeus and Obama to cite a link between the attacks and the video - according to the New York Times, the Benghazi attackers told bystanders that "that they were attacking the compound because they were angry about the video." In fact, the original set of talking points prepared by the CIA's Office of Terrorism Analysis stated that the attacks "were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo."

But in reporting on the same Petraeus email, Karl has left out Petraeus' stated reason for disliking the talking points and in one case allowed his interviewer to suggest that Petraeus actually opposed linking the attacks to the video.

Reporting on the Petraeus email, Karl told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that Petraeus "didn't like these talking points" and said that he "would just as soon not use them." O'Reilly responded that this proved his contention that Petraeus "didn't sign off on this at all" and that it was the White House and State Department "who made these edits and misled the world into thinking it could have been an anti-Islamic video put out by some nut in the USA."

"Miss Swift really is the only person in the USA who doesn’t know that plaid onesies, paired with hot chocolate and nerd glasses, have been mercilessly mocked by millions for the past week."Make that 2... I swear to God I have no idea what that means. I'll assume it's one of the many rightwing fetishes that emasculated rightwingers jerk off to.

The guy in the photo is Taylor’s brother; I know because one of my daughters told me so. ...

I think he's trying a little too hard here. My guess is that Taylor Swift is his #1 imaginary blow-up doll, and this whole rant is because he's feeling betrayed. You know, as if a normal person were to learn that Marisa Tomei is a Republican or something. Wait, I said too much.

Hinderaker has children? I thought he was gay? Not that there's anything wrong with that or that gay people wouldn't have children, but I always thought that a guy who once called himself Hindrocket, was gay.

All this has become clear to me. Yes, one of us often seeks different accommodations before the night's over.There's already a step to get up to the bed.

And we bought her a titanium knee, and this is how she repays us! And it's nothing but sheer snobbery, when you get down to it. She's got a pedigree, and is not about to take orders from a mongrel like me.

Hinderaker is apparently a synonym for "I'm really important and people pay attention to because I'm important, and if you don't know that, you're not important enough for me to know about until you do something important enough for me to say you're not important." I think.

"Miss Swift really is the only person in the USA who doesn’t know that plaid onesies, paired with hot chocolate and nerd glasses, have been mercilessly mocked by millions for the past week... does indeed live in a bubble" Self Awareness is not their long suit.

I thought the flag pin/dissing military thing went back to Clinton at least. It's a classic. For most ridiculous notscandal, I'm going with the "Michelle is telling kids to drink more water and so trying to poison kids" bit. That is, most ridiculous in the last year. Can't wait to see what the new year brings.

Shiboleth: As described in the AD&D 1st edition Monster Manual 2:a terrifying malevolent giant fish creature only to be found in the deepest subterranean lakes. Endlessly plotting the doom of the surface world, only not able to do much about it because: cave fish.

My wife's mom has bought her and her brother pajamas and given them to them on Christmas Eve so that they'd look nice on Christmas morning since they were tots. Who knew Obama's circumvention of causality stretched back not just to the financial collapse but a couple of decades.

...when I was a kid that stuff about the beavers and hot biscuits and Merle Haggard was understood to be a joke, even by hicks, of whom I was one and still am. Now there are circles in which it has attained the force of religious law.

Nostalgia has never been my strong suit but I'm beginning to understand its appeal.

But. cripes, let it never be said that these people aren't hardworking. It takes work, it takes drudgery sustained over the course of decades, before people who went to high schools where the parking lots really were packed with unpainted pick-ups adorned with gun racks will start to wonder if you might perchance be just a bit behind the times. Let no onlooker envy the reputation for dorkitude the American right has built up: they earned it by the sweat of their brow.

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